Saturday, October 22: 5:00 pm, Social Time, Grand Dinner and Program for the 375TH ANNIVERSARY First Parish Community and Families. The SCHEDULE OF EVENTS program is entitled “The Way We Were,” a Oct. 14–23, 2011, Concord, MA 1940-2000 First Parish retrospective, with special acknowledgement of those who have been at First Parish for 50 years or more. Saturday, October 22: 8:30 am to 1:00 For tickets, contact the First Parish office, pm, First Parish in Concord. Light break- 978-369-9602. fast. Panel presentation, led by Rev. Jenny Rankin of First Parish, with Rev. Mark Sunday, October 23, 9:00 and 11:00 am, Harris of First Parish in Watertown, MA Services celebrating First Parish history and Prof. Ronald Bosco, SUNY, Albany, New and its meaning today York. Followed by concurrent learning ses- sions on First Parish and its influences. Tom Potter, President of The Thoreau Soci- ety, and Mel Bernstein, Richard Lowitt, Lynn First Parish invites you to our gala 375th Hyde, Beth Norton, other historians will lead Anniversary events celebrating the rich these engaging sessions. Topics to include: heritage of our faith community. We wish ❧ Rev. William Emerson’s Impact on First to honor the stories of the people and Parish and the American Revolution cultural and political events that shape our ❧ Thoreau: In the Shadow of First Parish past and First Parish’s place in American ❧ The Anti-Slavery Sentiment at First history. We welcome all to attend! Parish ❧ History of Women at First Parish Fi r s t Pa r i s h In Co n c o r d ❧ Ezra Ripley and Emerson at First Parish Un i t a r i a n Universalist ❧ The Humanist at Work at First Parish 20 Lexington Road ❧ First Parish in Social Action Concord, MA 01742-2525 ❧ The Music of First Parish 978-369-9602 Tickets available from First Parish in [email protected] Concord. $15. Reservations and ticket information Saturday, October 22: 3:30 and 4:00 pm, at the 375th Anniversary website: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Tours. 6th Grade students from First Parish Religious Edu- fp375.firstparish.org cation program will lead tours highlighting six notable Unitarian Universalists who are buried in Sleepy Hollow. Saturday, October 15: 1:00 – 4:00 pm, Thursday, October Pr o g r a m Guided tours of The Old Manse, Emerson 20: Ezra Ripley House and Concord Museum. Special and the Crossing October 1–23: Exhibit of Historic themed tours, starting at 1:00, 2:00, and of the Milldam 3:00 pm, will take place at: The Concord First Parish Documents and Artifacts, Candlelight Tours Concord Free Public Library Museum, where a guided tour of the Concord Museum to tell the wonderful story, of The Old Manse October 14–23, Concord Museum: illustrated with historic artifacts, of how First starting at 5:30 pm Exhibit of rarely-seen First Parish Parish and the town of Concord have been and 6:30 pm, with Artifacts from the Museum’s collection. intimately involved since the town’s founding; a special focus on Ezra Ripley’s 63-year This exhibit can be viewed during the the Ralph Waldo Emerson House, where ministry. Followed by a social hour at the Museum’s regular hours (Museum a tour will focus on the Emerson family and Colonial Inn and “Upholding the Faith: admission required), or as part of a its connections to First Parish; and The Old The Conflict that Divided Ezra Ripley’s guided tour at a reduced price on Saturday Manse, where a tour will highlight Rev. Ezra Church,” a lecture by Robert Gross, afternoon, Oct. 15. Details below. Ripley, who served First Parish from 1778- James L. and Shirley A. Draper Professor 1841. Tickets available from First Parish in of Early American History, University of Friday, October Concord. Three tours for $15. Connecticut. Reservations required; tickets 14, 7:00 pm, available from The Old Manse (978-369- Concord Free Saturday, October 15, 3909) and from First Parish in Concord. $15. Public Library: 7:30 pm, First Parish Co-sponsored by The Old Manse and the Keynote Address, in Concord. Reenactor Trinitarian Congregational Church. “The First Parish Kevin Radaker gives a and Concord’s dramatic portrayal of Friday, October 21, ‘Errand into the Henry David Thoreau 7:00 pm at First Wilderness’—and delivering excerpts Parish in Concord, Beyond” by Ronald Bosco, Distinguished from his three major “No One Wore Prada: Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, anti-slavery speeches: An Evening of Living SUNY, Albany, New York, and author. “On Resistance to Civil Government,” History and Fashion.” This event is free and open to the public, “Slavery in Massachusetts,” and “A Plea for Fashion tableaux but seating is limited, so please plan to Captain John Brown.” Discussion follows. of historical figures arrive early. Radaker is a Professor of English at Anderson portraying the rich A reception follows. Co-sponsored by the University, Indiana. This event is free and open cultural heritage of First Parish through Concord Free Public Library. to the public. the ages. Tickets available from First Parish in Concord. Adults $15, children 12 Co-sponsored by The Thoreau Society, and under $5. ______the Drinking Gourd Project, and the Front panel photos: Top, the Fourth First Parish Transcendentalism Council of First Parish A reception follows. Co-sponsored by the Meetinghouse, completed in 1901, photo by Pierre Chiha. Women’s Parish Association. Bottom, Illustration of the First Meeting-House in West in Concord. Prof. Radaker’s travel courtesy of Springfield, MA, as published in Some Old Time Meeting Houses Anderson University. of the Connecticut Valley by Charles Albert Wright, 1911, (Continued on reverse) courtesy of Historic New England.